Once a condition or a hereditary pre-disposition is determined, a subject could be denied medical coverage for that condition.
I can't believe this could even be an issue. Why don't your lawmakers make it illegal for those responsible for financing medical care to discriminate against people with illnesses?
This is great news, a system to tell us whether a photograph is beautiful or not. We are approaching the point where we can outsource all our thinking to computers. Soon we won't have to use our brains at all!
Personally I don't care if company A sells my information to company B to use in advertising, or if company A just uses my personal information to advertise on behalf of company B. It's still assholes using my information to try to make money. And flood my inbox doing it.
On a more serious note, though. Some time from now, if this vaccine is developed and becomes widespread, the mosquitos will adapt to the poison in it (this is what evolution is all about), and we'll have mosquitos that are resistant to the poison.
This is probably true, as it is with antibiotics and bacteria. But just like we can't stop prescribing antibiotics for certain infections, we can't just not explore the possibilities of this vaccine.
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but creating a mild flu in a lab and then transported out to Colillacarajo, Mexico? That's just dumb.
You think they'd be so obvious as to release it in a big city such as New York or London? Of course they'd release it in a place where no-one would expect it to be released, like rural Mexico.
I imagine the price of Intel cpus and motherboards will be increasing in the EU very soon.
Well, so what? If they do that they should expect fewer people to buy their products. Maybe more customers will look to AMD's product line if Intel attempts to make customers pay their bill.
This is actually a very good idea. With all these invasions of privacy imposed on citizens, the police should be subjected to such surveillance as well. How about civilian squads monitoring the movements and actions of police units? Think of it as a kind of inverted neighbourhood watch. Whenever a cop roughs someone up, a police-watcher would be there with a camera to put it all on tape. Try to negate that in court!
Seriously. Spend $500m to buy mines, and $100m to lay them. Mines are about $3-5 actual manufacturing cost and that would give you a fairly high density of mines. I guarantee that midnight crossing would slow way down. Right now there's almost no risk to crossing the border illegally. Worst case they get detained and deported.
Land mines? Are you fucking kidding me? You seriously suggest killing people who cross a god-damned border. And you're spared from this just because you happened to be born within said borders?
So the study was cherry-picked: deceptive, because what is good in the short term can be bad in the long term.
This is why drugs oughtn't be marketed to patients. If an ad says a drug has fared well in a study, Joe Regular will assume it's automatically a good thing. He doesn't know a good study from a bad one, or whether a medical journal is reputable - or even exists. A physician has a far greater probability of distinguishing bullshit from actual facts than a layperson, though it doesn't of course always hold true.
FTA: "Phorm serves up adverts related to a user's web browsing history that it monitors by taking a copy of the places they go and search terms they look for."
What is "Home Office"?
From Wikipedia: "The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security and order."
What is the relationship between the two?
That's the thing, they shouldn't have any sort of relationship.
In other words, our children and grandchildren should pay for technological advances that make our lives easier.
More like their lives easier. Research is slow process - it takes years, maybe decades for an idea to progress from the sketching board to store shelves.
Have you stopped to consider how many of the innovations America has given the world came from.. dare I say this... researching "war toys"?... Computers as we know them today? The Atomic Age?
It's indisputable that the war industry has brought about countless useful inventions and discoveries. It is, however, a poor excuse for war. Could computers or nuclear power not have been invented without the underlying goal of destroying human lives? On the other hand, if all those resources hadn't been put into waging wars, could they maybe have been put into even more purposeful research?
It's all good and well, but the eye doesn't adapt to changes in lighting as fast as this material does. What if the lens (and the eye) were subjected to a bright light from the angle of, say, 70 degrees? This wouldn't be blinding, because it would not hit the area of high acuity vision on the retina, but would nevertheless cause the lens to dim. So we would have a situation where the light hitting the retina would be significantly reduced, but the eye would still be adapted to conditions of relative brightness. We would effectively be blind (think of going to dark indoors on a bright sunny day).
Sorry but patents and copyright are completely different things. Why do you have so little respect for creative works? Is it because you have no talent or creativity of your own or are you too damn lazy to try to create something new?
I write and record music, mostly for my own amusement. I have uploaded some of my stuff on the internet for friends and strangers to check out. I would never ever dream of charging anyone anything to listen to my music. When I need money, I go to work just like anyone else. I would never expect people to support my livelihood just because I spent a couple of hours of my time writing a tune.
If you ever had to prepare for a performance you might have some respect for the arts. As a spectator it must seem easy to you. I assure you that it is not easy and a good live performance can take hours of practice over a period of months to get right.
You are mixing the performing of music with the recording of music. Performing artists should rightly be paid for their work, because it's just that, work. They learn the songs, go to the venue, play music for hours - of course they should be compensated for their time. They should not, however, be given money indefinitely because of a song they wrote decades ago. But that's exactly what copyright is designed for.
There exists a great deal of genetic polymorphism with regard to drug efficacy and side-effects. Individuals have differing capabilites for metabolizing a drug, which leads to some people being able to tolerate higher doses than others.
In fear of lawsuits, pharma companies are quick to withdraw drugs from the market if serious side-effects surface. This has happened with a number of efficient drugs, such as rimonabant, an appetite suppressant that was pulled from the market in Europe for increased suicide risk. Even though the drug worked for a lot of people, Sanofi-Aventis saw that keeping the drug on the market wasn't worth the risk.
The issue of side-effects may be resolved with the aid of pharmacogenetics, which will hopefully help identify the capacity of patients to benefit from a drug and tolerate its side-effects. Then it wouldn't matter if we have drugs on the market that cause ill effects to a certain group of people, because doctors would be able to cross-reference a patient's genome for genetic polymorphisms with regard to a drug, and only prescribe drugs with known side-effects to patients that can handle them.
This is good progress, but still a kludge because it uses muscles rather than a direct nerve attachment.
I don't know what you mean by that, because TFA says that the motors are controlled by nerves. For example, the nerves that used to innervate her biceps were just rewired to other muscles after the amputation, so that now they can take those nerves and connect them to the motors that clench the forearm. The motors therefore act as muscles, though obviously in a different physiological manner.
TTVK (Copyright-information and enforcement Association) says that renting without rights from publishers or writers is illegal, because the service operates over Internet, and everybody can use it.
That is super retarded. What about libraries? Since when could *everyone* not use them? Greedy people will think of any justification to get more money.
Don't know about Elder Scrolls, but since this project seems to have been outsourced to Obsidian, Bethesda probably has enough resources to develop another big game.
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Once a condition or a hereditary pre-disposition is determined, a subject could be denied medical coverage for that condition.
I can't believe this could even be an issue. Why don't your lawmakers make it illegal for those responsible for financing medical care to discriminate against people with illnesses?
This is great news, a system to tell us whether a photograph is beautiful or not. We are approaching the point where we can outsource all our thinking to computers. Soon we won't have to use our brains at all!
(Not that many of us do presently, anyway.)
Personally I don't care if company A sells my information to company B to use in advertising, or if company A just uses my personal information to advertise on behalf of company B. It's still assholes using my information to try to make money. And flood my inbox doing it.
Another good reason not to be on Facebook.
On a more serious note, though. Some time from now, if this vaccine is developed and becomes widespread, the mosquitos will adapt to the poison in it (this is what evolution is all about), and we'll have mosquitos that are resistant to the poison.
This is probably true, as it is with antibiotics and bacteria. But just like we can't stop prescribing antibiotics for certain infections, we can't just not explore the possibilities of this vaccine.
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but creating a mild flu in a lab and then transported out to Colillacarajo, Mexico? That's just dumb.
You think they'd be so obvious as to release it in a big city such as New York or London? Of course they'd release it in a place where no-one would expect it to be released, like rural Mexico.
Now where's my tin foil hat?
I imagine the price of Intel cpus and motherboards will be increasing in the EU very soon.
Well, so what? If they do that they should expect fewer people to buy their products. Maybe more customers will look to AMD's product line if Intel attempts to make customers pay their bill.
I'm also not nuts about the 50% tax rate (average) in E.U. States. The U.S. tax rate of 40% is still outrageously high, but better.
The high tax rate is also what gives us Europeans luxuries such as free health care.
Or better yet, putting GPS on police cars.
This is actually a very good idea. With all these invasions of privacy imposed on citizens, the police should be subjected to such surveillance as well. How about civilian squads monitoring the movements and actions of police units? Think of it as a kind of inverted neighbourhood watch. Whenever a cop roughs someone up, a police-watcher would be there with a camera to put it all on tape. Try to negate that in court!
Seriously. Spend $500m to buy mines, and $100m to lay them. Mines are about $3-5 actual manufacturing cost and that would give you a fairly high density of mines. I guarantee that midnight crossing would slow way down. Right now there's almost no risk to crossing the border illegally. Worst case they get detained and deported.
Land mines? Are you fucking kidding me? You seriously suggest killing people who cross a god-damned border. And you're spared from this just because you happened to be born within said borders?
So the study was cherry-picked: deceptive, because what is good in the short term can be bad in the long term.
This is why drugs oughtn't be marketed to patients. If an ad says a drug has fared well in a study, Joe Regular will assume it's automatically a good thing. He doesn't know a good study from a bad one, or whether a medical journal is reputable - or even exists. A physician has a far greater probability of distinguishing bullshit from actual facts than a layperson, though it doesn't of course always hold true.
Windows is only free if your time is worth nothing.
Doesn't that really apply to Linux, too?
What is Phorm?
FTA: "Phorm serves up adverts related to a user's web browsing history that it monitors by taking a copy of the places they go and search terms they look for."
What is "Home Office"?
From Wikipedia: "The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security and order."
What is the relationship between the two?
That's the thing, they shouldn't have any sort of relationship.
The question is, can you make a system that actually works very well?
I'm glad someone finally got to asking this question.
Why all the xkcd related posts lately?
Where do you think slashdot editors get their news?
In other words, our children and grandchildren should pay for technological advances that make our lives easier.
More like their lives easier. Research is slow process - it takes years, maybe decades for an idea to progress from the sketching board to store shelves.
Have you stopped to consider how many of the innovations America has given the world came from.. dare I say this... researching "war toys"? ... Computers as we know them today? The Atomic Age?
It's indisputable that the war industry has brought about countless useful inventions and discoveries. It is, however, a poor excuse for war. Could computers or nuclear power not have been invented without the underlying goal of destroying human lives? On the other hand, if all those resources hadn't been put into waging wars, could they maybe have been put into even more purposeful research?
It's all good and well, but the eye doesn't adapt to changes in lighting as fast as this material does. What if the lens (and the eye) were subjected to a bright light from the angle of, say, 70 degrees? This wouldn't be blinding, because it would not hit the area of high acuity vision on the retina, but would nevertheless cause the lens to dim. So we would have a situation where the light hitting the retina would be significantly reduced, but the eye would still be adapted to conditions of relative brightness. We would effectively be blind (think of going to dark indoors on a bright sunny day).
Sorry but patents and copyright are completely different things. Why do you have so little respect for creative works? Is it because you have no talent or creativity of your own or are you too damn lazy to try to create something new?
I write and record music, mostly for my own amusement. I have uploaded some of my stuff on the internet for friends and strangers to check out. I would never ever dream of charging anyone anything to listen to my music. When I need money, I go to work just like anyone else. I would never expect people to support my livelihood just because I spent a couple of hours of my time writing a tune.
If you ever had to prepare for a performance you might have some respect for the arts. As a spectator it must seem easy to you. I assure you that it is not easy and a good live performance can take hours of practice over a period of months to get right.
You are mixing the performing of music with the recording of music. Performing artists should rightly be paid for their work, because it's just that, work. They learn the songs, go to the venue, play music for hours - of course they should be compensated for their time. They should not, however, be given money indefinitely because of a song they wrote decades ago. But that's exactly what copyright is designed for.
There exists a great deal of genetic polymorphism with regard to drug efficacy and side-effects. Individuals have differing capabilites for metabolizing a drug, which leads to some people being able to tolerate higher doses than others.
In fear of lawsuits, pharma companies are quick to withdraw drugs from the market if serious side-effects surface. This has happened with a number of efficient drugs, such as rimonabant, an appetite suppressant that was pulled from the market in Europe for increased suicide risk. Even though the drug worked for a lot of people, Sanofi-Aventis saw that keeping the drug on the market wasn't worth the risk.
The issue of side-effects may be resolved with the aid of pharmacogenetics, which will hopefully help identify the capacity of patients to benefit from a drug and tolerate its side-effects. Then it wouldn't matter if we have drugs on the market that cause ill effects to a certain group of people, because doctors would be able to cross-reference a patient's genome for genetic polymorphisms with regard to a drug, and only prescribe drugs with known side-effects to patients that can handle them.
This is good progress, but still a kludge because it uses muscles rather than a direct nerve attachment.
I don't know what you mean by that, because TFA says that the motors are controlled by nerves. For example, the nerves that used to innervate her biceps were just rewired to other muscles after the amputation, so that now they can take those nerves and connect them to the motors that clench the forearm. The motors therefore act as muscles, though obviously in a different physiological manner.
TTVK (Copyright-information and enforcement Association) says that renting without rights from publishers or writers is illegal, because the service operates over Internet, and everybody can use it.
That is super retarded. What about libraries? Since when could *everyone* not use them? Greedy people will think of any justification to get more money.
Pro-ana = pro-anorexia
Is hydrogen economy scrapped or still under development?
Post about it on slashdot, regain karma.
How ironic that you'd get modded Funny?
Don't know about Elder Scrolls, but since this project seems to have been outsourced to Obsidian, Bethesda probably has enough resources to develop another big game.